Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society

Rice has a long history of being the staple grain for the Cantonese communities. The prominence of rice is also captured in the abundance of rice-related idioms in the Cantonese vernacular. Within the theoretical and analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics (Sharifian, 2017), this chapter examines the cultural conceptualizations underlying Cantonese food idioms that contain the rice-related keywords mai , faan , and zuk , and discusses the extent of idiomaticity of these idioms from a Canton